Listed Building: 1-5, PRIORY PLACE (1375902)

CHESTER CITY (EM) SJ4066 PRIORY PLACE 1932-1/6/223 (North side) Nos.1-5 (Consecutive) GV II Row of 5 cottages. Dated 1898. Built for the Chester Cottage Improvement Company. Stone-dressed brown brick with blue diapering; hipped grey slate roof, ridge parallel with front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 5 doors, each with one step, 4 tall thin panels beneath a cross-panel with leaded glazing; stone lintels, those to Nos 2 and 3 inscribed "A.D : 1898"; a stone-mullioned flush-quoined 3-light leaded casement to each cottage; first floor band; stone quoins and mullions to leaded casements, one of 3 lights and one of 1 light to each cottage; a central terracotta panel inscribed "C : CI : C". Cast-iron rainwater pipes and heads; exposed eaves-rafters; terracotta finial; 2 ridge chimneys; a shaped flush chimney at left end; the rear is simply detailed. INTERIORS not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: at the turn of the C19/C20 the philanthropic Chester Cottage Improvement Company sought to provide model dwellings for working people, a task which the City Council was not equipped to tackle until after 1918. With Nos 6-16 Priory Place (qv) and Nos 30, 32 and 34 Love Street (qv), this is the best example of their work. (Chester City Council and Committee: Improvement Committee Minutes: 8.6.1898). Listing NGR: SJ4094366299